Natural Language Processing (NLP) including Information Extraction from medical texts
Knowledge Acquisition, Representation,
Processing, and Automatic Extraction esp. connected to NLP
Compression of Conceptual Information and Efficient Conceptual Search
Computer Assisted
Language Learning (CALL)
October 2012 - March 2016 - Coordinator of AComIn "Advanced Computing for Innovation", grant 316087 with the
European Commission, Research & Innovation DG, call FP7-REGPOT-2012-2013-1;
2010-2011 - Principal investigator in PSIP+, ICT Call 5 extension of the FP7 ICT project PSIP "Patient Safety through Intelligent Procedures in medication", grant 216130;
2009-2012 - Project Leader of EVTIMA "Efficient Search of Conceptual Patterns
with Applications in Medical Informatics", grant DO-02-292 with the
Bulgarian National Science Fund;
2005-2007 - Steering Committee Member and Principal investigator in the
project BIS-21++ Center of Competence
FP6-2004-ACC-SSA-2, dealing with Knowledge-Based
Systems;
2005 - Coordinator of MLCF-CT-2004-013233, a FP6 Marie Curie Large
Conference Grant for RANLP-2005, with the European Commission;
2001-2004 - Principal investigator in the project BIS-21 Center of Excellence
ICA1-2000-70016, dealing with Language Technologies for German and Bulgarian;
2003 - Coordinator of the FP5 IST Conference Grant for RANLP-2003, with the
European Commission;
2001-2003 - Coordinator of Balric-Ling (IST-2000-26454);
2001 - Coordinator of HPCF-2000-00329 EuroConference RANLP-2001, with the European Commission, DGXII, Human Potential Programme,
High Level Scientific Conferences;
1998-2001 - Scientific
coordinator of LARFLAST (Learning Foreign Language Scientific
Terminology) , a Copernicus'98 JRP funded by the
European Commission.
For information about past projects check my CV.